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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, read by Kirby Heyborne. The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife...

Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, available as a complete and unabridged audiobook. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.

For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved.

A body in the library. Four likely suspects. One visually-impaired seventy-something sleuth. The second book in Jinny Alexander's delightful Mrs Smith's Suspects series. On an ordinary Tuesday morning in the library, Sally Smith's Book Club is enjoying a classic Whodunnit novel. Then one of the...

Can their love survive a community at war? When World War Two is declared, Maisie Canavan is working as a newly-qualified midwife in Belfast's Royal Maternity Hospital, helping women and babies across community divides. In a city already torn apart, Maisie now faces the terrifying prospect of...

Sometimes the perfect partner is the one you least expect. Laura never imagined that starting over would feel this lonely. A divorced single mom, she's spent years cleaning up the wreckage left by her unreliable musician ex. So when she agrees to a date with Ollie—the quiet, dependable tax...

She ran from her wedding. Now she's standing on my porch… still in the damn dress. Faith Ross always did have a wild streak, but seeing her stumble out of a wrecked truck on Christmas Eve—lace torn, eyes glassy with panic—is something I'll never forget. Six years ago, she left Buckhorn...

Lilac Colt is VP of the Venom Riders MC. He's dangerous, intense, and convinced I destroyed him when I disappeared without a word. When he corners me in a grocery store with his twin sons at my side, the hatred in his eyes is terrifying. But I don't remember him. I don't remember anything from...

In a small town where secrets last five minutes, privacy is a myth, and gossip lasts forever, this might have been the worst possible place to settle. After my last job fell apart and burned my reputation, I followed Archer to this small town in Nowhere, Montana. I had no intention of staying...

All the Things We Buried, a new Hemlock Press book, full description to follow when available...

After spending her childhood in Haddon House Children's Hostel, Alice Tucker is selected to go into service at Holmorton Lodge. Left behind in the workhouse after the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, the only clues to Alice's past lie in hazy childhood memories. Now, ten years later, she longs to uncover the truth about her family and who she really is. When a chance discovery leads her from a Welsh nursing home to a solicitor's office in Manchester, Alice begins to unravel a story far more tangled than she imagined.

The Wild Ruins, a new Hemlock Press book, full description to follow when available...

Eight years after the flood, Sorrow Bend is still here. Not untouched. Not unchanged. But still standing. On Tuesday mornings, a small market gathers in an old parking lot. A ledger is kept. People show up. Things are made, traded, and carried forward. It’s how the town holds together.

José Cosme perdera mulher e filha, vivendo com o filho menor em sua casinha, notável pelo horto aprazível onde chorava frequentemente a perda das mulheres. Chega o dia, no entanto, em que o filho parte para o Brasil, em busca de melhores condições. O pobre José? Mergulha em sua dor... Trindade Coelho, prosador português, faz aqui uso de sua usual narrativa de matizes rústicos para retratar brilhantemente cenas do cotidiano de sua região, Trás-os-Montes, Portugal.

First serialised in Household Words in 1851, Cranford is a charming, episodic novel which has been adapted for the stage, radio and TV. Based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford where Gaskell was raised, Cranford paints a tender, witty portrait of an English village and its beloved locals. Consisting of a series of sketches, the novel recounts the lives of the kind-hearted but anxious Miss Matty Jenkins, and her sharper, opinionated sister Miss Deborah.

When Charlie is hired to repair a lodge in Pine Ridge, she's stuck sharing a house with the grumpy ranch manager. And he is not happy she's here. Charlie is exhausted—tired of being told she's "too much" and sick of boyfriends who stick around as long as a temporary tattoo. So when her best...

Maddie, her sister Martha, and Buck grow up bound together in hardship, building a fragile refuge in the branches of a towering cypress tree. What begins as a child’s treehouse becomes their only escape from a home marked by fear, control, and hidden truths buried beneath the floorboards. As the years pass, Buck takes on the weight of keeping them safe, while Maddie learns to navigate a world where danger hides behind silence and obedience. Between stolen moments of joy, music in the treetops, and a bond forged through hardship, the children begin to dream of freedom beyond the swamp.

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award An AudioFile Editors’ Pick for Summer Listening A Cullman Times Pick of Beach Reads A Shreveport Times Pick of Beach Reads with a Thrill One of Goodreads Biggest Books of Summer 2023 An International Pulpwood Queens Choice of Bonus Book-Club Reads A...

The dazzling from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006 January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he...

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.